INVESTIGATIONS are being carried out after damage was caused to two holes at Haddington Golf Club.

Damage was caused to tee markers and flags at the golf course, on the town’s Amisfield Park, over the last month.

Police Constable Lynn Black, who chairs the town’s Community and Police Partnership (CAPP) meetings, told members about the damage at a meeting last Monday evening.

She said: “I had the head greenkeeper at Haddington Golf Club get in touch with me regards youths setting up a den between where the new skate park is and the small woodland area beside the 10th and 11th tees.”

As well as damage to the tee markers and flags, there was also evidence of fires having been set in bunkers and patches of burnt grass, she added.

It is not the first time that the golf course has been targeted.

Last April, PC Black told members there had been “numerous” calls involving youths and anti-social behaviour over a period of weeks in March and April, including  report of intentional fire-raising at the greenkeeper’s hut.

The issue has now been identified as one of three priorities by the CAPP group and will be targeted ahead of the group’s next meeting, which takes place on May 23.